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When the home office adds an unexpected crew member to the environmental section of the Lois McKendrick, Ishmael Wang faces being put ashore at the next port. Not even his multiple division ratings can save him because he refuses to bump someone else in his place. In just a few days, Ishmael will lose both his friends and the home he has made for himself while traveling through the Deep Dark. Just when he thought matters could not get any worse, an EMP damages the ship and threatens the lives of everyone on board. Gone are the days when Ish's biggest challenge was making a good cup of coffee. Now he must use his wits and rely on the ingenuity of his shipmates just to survive.
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10 primary books11 released booksGolden Age of the Solar Clipper
Golden Age of the Solar Clipper is a 11-book series with 10 primary works first released in 2007 with contributions by Nathan Lowell.
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9 primary booksSolar Clipper universe
Solar Clipper universe is a 9-book series with 9 primary works first released in 2007 with contributions by Nathan Lowell.
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Ishmael Wang gets another promotion in this book, as you might have guessed from the title, and starts to think about life after his tour of duty on the Lois McKendrick.
If you've listened to the first two boks in the series, you more or less know what to expect here, although things to get taken to the “next level” to an extent; the ship is put in some very real danger this time around, some of the interpersonal issues raised in the earlier books come to a head, and we're left with a strong feeling of the end of a phase in Ish's life, rather than just it being another part of his journey.
I've come to realize that, more than pretty much any one else working in the medium, Lowell is clearly thinking about the ‘podiobook' as a separate medium of storytelling and is writing for that, rather than writing a novel and then recording an audio version of it.
This is a little better, more in line with the first book. We still have some ridiculous romance and our hero is an unredeemable Mary Sue, but it can not harsh my out-of-character-for-me mellow.
